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The Entre Ciel et Terre conference — translated from French as "Between Heaven and Earth" — faced criticism from Quebec’s Minister for the Status of Women Agnès Maltais. Maltais asked the Canadian government to bar some invited guests from entering the country, calling the speakers "radical Islamists" who don’t respect equality between men and women.…

A federal district judge in Indiana has ruled that school administrators may prohibit "I ♥ Boobies" breast-cancer awareness bracelets as lewd or vulgar student speech. Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen of Hammond, Ind., considered and rejected the reasoning of the full federal appeals court in Philadelphia, which ruled earlier this month that the bracelets could…

Although we’ve recently seen this issue arise when a book was challenged and retained at the Indianapolis public library and last year in the King County Library System near Seattle, the Tribune article was sparked by a controversy in the Chicago suburb of Morton Grove. The town’s library is currently running a film series that…

… suggesting that scenes of rape are pornography erases the distinction between sexual assault and consensual sex in a way that’s all too common in our larger culture. And it plays into the idea that depiction of a bad act is always an endorsement of it, a belief that tends to circumscribe what’s possible and…

Heather noticed that perhaps because of the rain there were less people, but the people who did come by our booth wanted to talk a little more. Here are some of them. First, there was Robert Chaplin. I bought two copies of his independently published book Ten Counting Cat. I love picture books that look…

Yesterday 11 members of the Intellectual Freedom and Information Policy Committees braved the cold, wet, windy weather to entertain and educate at the Word on the Street literacy and book festival. Everyone had their own unique way of drawing people in. Sylvia was like a carnival barker, or the guy who demonstrates super absorbent towels…